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Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2012)

Joan Burton: The National Internship Scheme was launched on 1st July 2011. It provides internship opportunities of either 6 or 9 months for unemployed individuals on the Live Register, at all skills levels. The aim of JobBridge is to assist individuals in breaking the cycle where they are unable to get a job without experience. It provides them with an opportunity to gain valuable experience, relevant...

Written Answers — Personal Public Service Numbers: Personal Public Service Numbers (9 May 2012)

Joan Burton: The process for allocating a Personal Public Service (PPS) number normally involves an application in person at one of my Department's PPS Number allocation centres. Where a person cannot attend, an application may be made in writing with appropriate proof of identity to the Department's Client Identity Services Division, Shannon Lodge, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim. The necessary details...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (9 May 2012)

Joan Burton: A bereavement grant is a payment designed to assist families in dealing with death and funeral expenses. It is a once-off payment based on pay-related social insurance (PRSI) contributions, made from the Social Insurance Fund. According to the records of my Department no application for a bereavement grant has been received in respect of the deceased. To qualify for a bereavement grant, the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (9 May 2012)

Joan Burton: Customers who have their Domiciliary Care Allowance entitlement reviewed are asked to provide relevant up-to-date medical evidence and details of the additional care needs of their child within 60 days. In a small number of cases where customers have not returned information or made contact with the Department, their payments have been suspended. Payments have been restored in these cases...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (9 May 2012)

Joan Burton: I duly note the queries made by the Deputy during last Wednesday's committee stage debate in respect of Section 5, Sub-section 3, of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill, 2012. Due to the detailed and comprehensive nature of these queries, and as discussed and agreed with the Deputy, officials in my Department are preparing an answer, and this will be issued as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (9 May 2012)

Joan Burton: The client was awarded rent supplement on the 4th of May following receipt of all the requested documentation. The person concerned is in receipt of her full entitlement to rent supplement based on her household circumstances.

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2012)

Joan Burton: The National Internship Scheme was launched on 1st July 2011. It provides internship opportunities of either 6 or 9 months for unemployed individuals on the Live Register, at all skills levels. The aim of JobBridge is to assist individuals in breaking the cycle where they are unable to get a job without experience. It provides them with an opportunity to gain valuable experience, relevant...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (8 May 2012)

Joan Burton: New maximum rent limits came into force on 1 January 2012 and are in place until June 2013. The maximum monthly rent limits for the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council area are set out in the tabular statement below. Rent Supplement Rent limits for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council area County Single person in shared accommodation Couple in shared accommodation Single person Couple...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2012)

Joan Burton: A claim under the Insolvency payment scheme was submitted manually on behalf of the person concerned on 11 August 2011 in respect of arrears of wages, holiday pay and minimum notice. The Department is currently processing manually submitted claims received in July 2011. A claim for a redundancy payment in respect of the person concerned was paid on 1 November 2011.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (8 May 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 22nd December 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers have been received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (8 May 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that following an oral hearing of the appeal in question, the Appeals Officer, as agreed at the hearing, referred the case back to the Social Welfare Inspector for further investigations and clarification of the means of the person concerned. The case has been returned to the Appeals Officer who is now considering the appeal in the light of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (8 May 2012)

Joan Burton: Carer's allowance is a means tested income support payment for people who are providing full time care and attention to a person in need of such care. A person in receipt of carer's allowance can engage in employment, self-employment, training or education outside the home for up to 15 hours per week and still qualify for the payment. However, one of the main qualifying conditions for the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2012)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 210 and 243 together. The person concerned applied for rent supplement on 14th February 2012 but the rent sought was in excess of the new maximum rent limits appropriate to his family composition introduced on 1st January 2012. The person concerned was disallowed rent supplement and notified of his right to appeal against this decision to the Social...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (8 May 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 18th October 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers have been received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (8 May 2012)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an oral hearing of the appeal of the person concerned took place on 23rd April 2012 and the Appeals Officer is now considering the appeal in the light of all the evidence submitted, including that adduced at the hearing. The person concerned will be notified of the Appeals Officer decision when the appeal has been determined. The Social...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (8 May 2012)

Joan Burton: Since the launch of the Strategic Management Initiative in February 1994, the provision of high quality customer service has been an essential element of the modern Public Service. Delivering Better Government published in May 1996, recommended the introduction of a Quality Service Initiative for the customers of the Civil Service and in 1997 the Quality Customer Service (QCS) Initiative was...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (8 May 2012)

Joan Burton: Taking account of the unusual circumstances of retained fire brigade personnel and general efforts to develop and standardise our jobseeker schemes, a departmental group was established in late 2011 to examine the position of these workers vis-À-vis jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance. While this examination has been largely completed, a number of issues arising from it are being...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (8 May 2012)

Joan Burton: The number of places allocated to each of the Community Employment Schemes currently running in County Louth is set out in the table attached. It should be noted that the decrease in places in 2012 is as a result of the closure of one element of two different projects and is not related to budgetary restrictions. It is intended to use these places to initiate a new scheme in Drogheda which...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Offices: Social Welfare Offices (8 May 2012)

Joan Burton: The table below details the vacancies in the locations mentioned. Location Grade Duration of vacancy Mullingar Local Office 1 Higher Executive Officer1 Executive Officer (Inspector) 1st March 2012 to date1st March 2012 to date Athlone Local Office 1 Staff Officer September 2011 to date Longford Local Office 1 Higher Executive Officer (Inspector)1 Higher Executive Officer1 Staff Officer1...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (8 May 2012)

Joan Burton: The Department has a major programme of business, organisational and technological change underway to enable it to modernise the services which it provides to customers. The Department engages consultants for work which comes within the definition of 'consultancy' set out in Department of Finance guidelines - where a person or organisation provides intellectual or knowledge based services...